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Surveying in the Delta
With the support of the grant given to the EES Delta Survey by the British Academy Jeffrey and Patricia Spencer hope to survey in March/April 2011 a large tell, Kom el-Daba, in Kafr es-Sheikh...
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We are planning a new range of books to appeal to people who don’t necessarily know much about ancient Egypt or the EES.We would be grateful if you could take the time to complete this survey, through...
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Dr David Jeffreys confirmed as speaker at the 'Pyramid Age' study day
Dr David Jeffreys, Director of the EES Survey of Memphis, has been confirmed as a speaker at the June study day, 'Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids'.Details of the talk are as follows:One of our cities...
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New EES Title "Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery"...
The Egypt Exploration Society’s new title, Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery by Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot is now available to order.Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot was an expert on ancient...
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Easter Office Closures
The London Office and Library will close at 4.30 pm on Thursday 21 April 2011 and reopen after the Easter holidays and May bank holiday at 10.30 am on Tuesday 3 May 2011.The Cairo Office will be closed...
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Tell Basta Spring 2011: end of season report
The joint University of Potsdam / SCA Tell Basta Project*, which is supported by the EES as an Amelia Edwards Project, has recently completed its Spring 2011 season. The team was among the first to...
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Online resources for the study of mud-brick
Following the successful seminar on mud-brick architecture at Doughty Mews on 12 March 2011 two of the speakers, Maria Correas and Caroline Simpson, have provided details of a series of online...
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Film Review: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (France, Luc Besson, 2010): Review by John J Johnston The possibility of my reviewing Luc Besson’s latest film was originally suggested because it...
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Moving beyond national narratives: the EES Committee Minutes.
William Carruthers, a recipient of the Society's Centenary Award in 2009-10 and a regular visitor to the Society's archives, is now pursuing doctoral research into the history of Egyptology in the...
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Saqqara New Kingdom Tombs
The Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt has today opened to visitors several of the New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara which were excavated by the EES/Leiden mission, directed for the EES by Professor Geoffrey...
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A visit from HE the new British Ambassador
On Wednesday 1 June 2011, and with less than a week to go before his departure to Cairo, Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Mr James Watt, CVO, kindly squeezed in a visit...
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Library catalogue temporarily offline
The Society's online library catalogue is temporarily unavailable due a fault. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and would like to assure members and others that we are working hard to...
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Old GRM's have come back into stock at Doughty Mews
Our members might be interested to know that a few recent additions to the Graeco-Roman Memoirs cannon have come back in stock here at Doughty Mews.For a while now our supply in the office had been...
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Return of the Library Catalogue
After a visit from a BT engineer, the catalogue of the EES Library is now back online. We do apologise for its temporary disappearance last week and do hope it didn't prove to be too inconvenient for...
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EES Durham Seminar
On Saturday 11 June 2011, the EES hosted a Saturday Seminar at the University of Durham. Angus Graham attended and has sent his personal view of this very successful event:‘The Self Presentation of...
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Searching for "a few stray fragments" of an astronomical ceiling
Professor Sarah Symons of the Integrated Science Programme & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario recently visited the Society's London offices to study some of...
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An Evening of Celebration
On Tuesday 28th June a mixture of press, potential funders, industry contacts and charity directors convened at the Middle East Association in Green Park for an EES-hosted reception entitled ‘The...
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Refurbishment Commences
The long-anticipated conversion of the former kitchen at no. 4 Doughty Mews into additional space for the storage of archival material has now begun. The Society’s 2009-10 fundraising campaign which...
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Harry Smith, the Nubian Survey and an A-Group Cemetery
An excerpt from the Society’s Oral History Project interview with Professor Harry Smith has now appeared on the Society’s YouTube channel and is available below. In this part of the interview, which...
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Online Library Catalogue unavailable
Unfortunately, the Society's online library catalogue is again temporarily unavailable, this time due to a problem with the server which will replaced this week. We apologise for this second outage and...
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